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Games like Stellar Code

If Stellar Code is your kind of game, the closest matches are Across Kiloparsecs, Inverted Angel and PENTALOOP -ペンタループ- — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its compact yet dense storytelling, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Stellar Code: Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material. Together with your brilliant sister-in-law, you must unravel a mystery that could determine the fate of Earth. A sci-fi mystery visual novel of discovery and suspense.

2025IndieAdventure24.98 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Fragaria
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Steam players who put hours into Stellar Code also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Across Kiloparsecs

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Stellar Code.

    A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.

    2024Adventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Inverted Angel

    WHY THIS

    Shares investigation, visual novel style, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Stellar Code.

    Second-strongest match for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    A girl visited your home, who you don't know but she identified herself as your girlfriend. She seems a little bit Menhera, but she knows too much to be just a stalker. This is a Kawaii Future Mystery, you will answer by free input for branching story. Please Try to find out true identity of her.

    2024IndieAdventure5.59 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. PENTALOOP -ペンタループ-

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    “PENTALOOP” is, a GM-less Murder Mystery game for 4 players. Play with family, friends, and like-minded people, Play together with your family, friends, or other like-minded people.

    2025IndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzle solving, visual novel style, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Stellar Code.

    Ranked #4 for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Stellar Code.

    Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!

    2025Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Quarantine Circular

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stellar Code.

    Ranked #5 for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stellar Code.

    Ranked #6 for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!

    2022IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Expelled!

    WHY THIS

    Shares investigation, visual novel style, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Stellar Code.

    Ranked #7 for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Warp Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Stellar Code.

    Ranked #8 for Stellar Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    In the year 2215, orbiting humanity's newest extrasolar colony, Police Captain Vincent Cassini becomes embroiled in an intersystem conspiracy to bury crimes that occurred during the war that devastated his planet.

    2021IndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stellar Code at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Stellar Code.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~68% under Stellar Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Stellar Code.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stellar Code.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stellar Code.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Stellar Code

Does Stellar Code run on Steam Deck?
Stellar Code is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Stellar Code cost?
Stellar Code is listed on Steam at 24.98 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Stellar Code?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stellar Code are Across Kiloparsecs, Inverted Angel, PENTALOOP -ペンタループ-.
Who developed Stellar Code?
Stellar Code was developed by Fragaria and published by Fragaria, Studio CAGE, Seikei Production.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Stellar Code.

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